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Bhagavad Gita 2.8

न हि प्रपश्यामि ममापनुद्याद्यच्छोकमुच्छोषणमिन्द्रियाणाम्।अवाप्य भूमावसपत्नमृद्धम्राज्यं सुराणामपि चाधिपत्यम्॥

na hi prapaśyāmi mamāpanudyādyacchokamucchoṣaṇamindriyāṇām |avāpya bhūmāvasapatnamṛddhamrājyaṃ surāṇāmapi cādhipatyam ||

I do not see that this sorrow that burns up my senses would be removed, even if I were to attain prosperous and unrivaled dominion on earth or lordship over the gods.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

For even if I were to attain the monarchy of the visible world, or the sovereignty over the invisible world, it would not drive away the anguish that is now paralyzing my senses.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.